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The unprecedented sale of Bos.
chec's German Syrup within a few
years, has astonished the world.
1t is without doubt the safest and
best remedy ever discovered for the
speedy and cHcctual cure for Colds,
Coughs, ana the scvcrcst Lung
Troubles. 1t acts upon an entirely
different principle from the prcscrip.
tiods usually given 10y physicians.
as it does not dry up a Cough and
leave the disease still i'm the system,
but on the contrary removes the
cause of the trouble, heals the parts
affected and leaves them in purely
healthy condition. A bottle kept in
the house for use when the diseases
make their appearance, will save
doctors bills and long spell of sc.
rious illness. A trial will convince
you of these facts. 1t is positively
sold by all druggists and general
dealers in the land. Price - cts,
large bottles. l-20-S7
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County and State News.

nv l. - ANN'h 49,
diary.
Last Tuesday was the first day
of Spring.
-washingtons birthday was not
observed here.
"A $4,000 hotel is to be erected
at Huntington.
Organs on easy monMy pay
ments, of Stone. Kingwood.
Frank jackson didn't 90 to Tun-
Melton to see his girl last Sunday.
Ter j. Hagans, of Brandonville,
was in town on Sunday and Monday.
Gamers Cleaner for March is
on our table. 1t is model number.
-Thirty.fve Berkeley county
farmers LETT for Kansas few days
ago.
Senator Dawson and Delegate
Hokc of this place, have returned
from Charleston.
Will Shaw. son of Robert Shaw,
left this week for ELEPHANTS, Pa,
where he has secured a situation.
-Scarlet fever has followed the
measles at parkersburg and is now
raging with fatal fury.
Dur amount of reading matter is
cut short this week by an unexpect-
ed rush Of advertisements.
Only FIVE weeks till the spring
term of our Circuit Court will begin.
1t will be lengthy and important
term.
Read the legal advertisements
which appear in this issue of The
ARGUS. Several valuable properties
arc offered for sale
"A row was raised at a show in
Aliens Hall, Newburg, few even
ings ago. We hear that pistols were
Aourished but no one was shot.
Stone the organ man, will trade
you new organ, handsome and
sweet toned, for your old one. Write
for particulars and catalogue.
We remember something Of a
Wool Growers Association that was
was organized in this county some
time ago. What has become Of it
Correspondents contemplating
a dive into spring poetry must not
forget that our terms for publishing
such stuff are five cents per line.
Mcssrs. Tom. and John Cooke
were in town Saturday, The former
now represents Speyer Bros, Wheel
ing, and the latter lives in Cumber-
land.
Some fine trout have already
been caught in the mountain streams
on the East Side. Joseph Jackson,
Esq, will read this with genuine
pleasure.
The St Gcor,e Democrat had
one Of his forms knocked into "pi"
last week and there was n conse-
xucnt dearth Of editorial matter in
the last issue.
1t is reported here that Mr..
Thomas Fortney has well grounded
suspicious who the party is that set
FIRE to his barn. The scoundrel
should be brought 20 justice.
1t is about time the streets
ought TO be cleaned up The coun-
Gil could expend little money TO a
good advantage in having this done.
Clean streets materially help the
looks Of town
Preston county farmers are not
the only ones suffering from incen-
diary fires. joins Mann, Of Ran.
dolph county, had his barn and q
two.story out-building burned a week
or two ago y an unknown incen-
diary
Mr.. Joseph 10. Vonmetcr. OF
Hardy county, still has In, faithful
stccd that bore him IN many a battle
and many weary marches during the
civil war. IIeis now go years old.
but is remarkably risky ro his agc.
Mr. Naumctcr has put him on Che
retired list aud Doe has been required
TO do mo- drudutr. for several wears
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, 1887-10-22

wishing Wells of Northern England.
An English writer says throughout the
north of his country there are wishing
wells, - where the passer by may breathe
his wish, land may rest assured of its
fulfllment if he only drop a crooked pin
into the water.
This use for crooked pins must be gen
orally known and practiced. Another
person says: at is scarcely three months
since l looked into the wishing well at
Wooler and NV the crooked pins strewed
over the bottom among the gravel" The
same thing is told of others of these
springs.
One curious thing about the practice is
that crooked pins are used. 1t may be
thought that such pins, being worthless
for any other use, were held as fit for this
idle ceremony. This is looking at the
matter from point of view, not from
that of the humble questioner.
The older and more complete cere.
mony is described as still to be witnessed
in Cornwall.
1.-TWO pieces of straw, about an inch
long each, were crossed and the pin run
through them. This cross was then
dropped into the water and the rising
bubbles carefully counted, as they marked
the years or months or days that would
pass before the happening of the event
which was of concern"
Auguries were drawn from these crosses
in other ways. They were made so as
barely to float; then, 'if the % swan,
the thrower was to outlive the year; if it
sank, he was to die within hat time"
Other matters were to be learned from
the D~OsitiOn the cross took as it flOated on
the surface Youths Companion.
, 1887-10-22

If an intelligent Australian c~olonist
were suddenly to be translated backward
from Collins street, Melbourne, into the
furnishing woods of the secondary geo
logical period-say about the precise mo-
ment of time when the English chalk
downs were slowly accommodating, speck
by speck, on the silent floor of some long
forgotten ELECTROMAGNETIC intelligent
c~olonist would look around him with a
sweet smile of cheerful recognition, and
say to himself in some surprise: why,
this is just like Australia" The animals,
the trees, the plants, the insects, would
all more or less wildly remind him Of
those he had left behind him in his happy
home of the southern seas, and the Nine
teenth century. The sun would have
moved back on the dial of ages for a few
million summers or so, indefinitely lin
geology we refuse to be bound by dates,
and would have landed him at last, to his
immense establishment, pretty much at
the exact point whence he first started.
In other words, with a few needful quail
t~ications, to be made hereafter, Australia
is, SO to speak, a fossil continent, Il
country still in its secondary age, a sur
viving fragment of the primitive world
of the chalk period or earlier ages. Corn
hill Magazine.
, 1887-10-22

HISTORIANS AT WORK.

' \ prominent gentleman in town yestcr-
day received a letter from a gentleman in
Beatrice, Washington Territory, asking
for information regarding Mr.. Ashley
Bancroft. Mr.. Bancroft will be remem-
bered here as a suave and well dressed
man, OF rather handsome presence, who
divided his time between posing as the
nephew of his uncle and bilking such por
tons of the community as he came in
contact with. He made his appearance
here with letters of recommendation,
backed by testimonials which would have
made a Sunday school superintendent
weep for Joy. The glittering career which
Mr.. Bancroft led in Colorado and Wyo-
ming, with so much profit to himself and
so little satisfaction to his acquaintances,
he is now ~endeavoring to duplicate in
Washington Territory. II the people of
that section are inclined to get their
moneys worth we know of no man of
whom it is better to steer clear than the
polished person known as Mr.. Ashley
Bancroft.
Taking about historical frauds, what
has become of that first-water specimen
known as p. NJ. Wilkerson? 1t was
about three years ago that Wilkerson first
put in an appearance in Wyoming. He
IS a lean, lank, lantern iawed Hoosier,
who wears a seductive smile and war
record that i. long and peculiarly odorous.
History is his hobby. especially that class
of personal history known as biography,
in which he fairly reyels at so much a
page. Montana WAS first promised a
history which should paint the deeds of
is heroes with the pen of pocsy and send
the names of its pioneers Shrek
ing down the ages as the deeds
of noble Spartans have come thun
dering along the corridors of time.
To the beauty of the letter press the pen
Gil of the artist was to add its charm and
besides the varied architecture of Mon
tana the irontispicccs of Montana nota-
bilities were to be handed down to an
cxpectant and overioyed posterity. The
book has never got beyond the manuscript
form yet, but financially it has been a
great success for Mr.. Wilkerson. Pre-
cisely the same tactics were worked here
and with a fair degree of success. An
expose of Mr.. Wilkerson and his peculiar
methods was published in THE LEADER
about three years ago. Mr.. Wilkerson
was at that time in the western part of
the territory and. 0 every paper along
the line Of the Union Pacific was filed
with paragraphs about a libel suit which
this paper would very soon have on
its hands. 1t is needless to
say that Mr.. Wilkcrson himself
was the source Of all this information.
Mr.. Wilkcrson finally reached this city
and WAS as mild hammered as a stcwcd
clam. All he wanted was justice, and
when it was intimatcd to him that he had
secured Justice i'll the expose he almost
wcpt to think that a man Of his unim-
p~eachublc integrity had been thus mcrci-
lcssly and causelessly attacked. He got
neither sympathy nor a retraction but he
had the very good sense to refrain from
getting iIto court through the medium of
q libel suit.
He has lately been working Colorado by
the old familiar methods. That field is
now nearly played out and it is said he
next meditatcs a tour of Minnesota.
The pcnitentiary is fairly yawning to
, 1887-10-22

TERRITORY OF WYoMING.
COUNTY OF LARAMIE

TERRITORY OF WYOMING, ~,
COUNTY OF LARAMIE !"
OFFICE OF County TREASURER AND
COLLECTOR CF TAXES.
CHEYENNE, Sept. 10, 1887.
All persons and corporations liable to
taxation arc hereby notified that the tax
list of Laramie county for the year 1887
has this, the third Monday in September,
been placed in my hands for collection
according to law, and that said taxes are
now due and payable, at my Office, with
out further notice.
Any tax remaining unpaid on the 30th
day of November, A. d. 1887, will be
delinquent, and subject to the addition of
a penalty of ten (I0) per centum, together
with interest and costs of collection.
ISAAC BERGMAN.
County Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.
, 1887-10-22

The Ncbraskans are calling that state
Gods country; but there are very few of
them who would not stand up and howl
if it were proposed to build a church upon
one of their lots without buying it at a
handsome figure per loot.
, 1887-10-22

"I.ct US have brains in the presidency, ~
demands Il wise editor of the East. That
editor has more brains in the presidency
than he has under his hat.
, 1887-10-22

An excited mother is said to have
banged on a neighbor's door in Leadville
one day recently. and exclaimed, Come
over as soon us you re through breakfast.
II the baby amt got a tooth I'm a liar. ''
, 1887-10-22

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DIR. W. N. Hunt.
, 1887-10-22

This is about the time of year that a
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Some Of our wood paying subscribers will
please make a note Of this. We are not
particular, just so we don't get stumps or
, 1887-10-22

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GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
The Escaped Men--Their Grimes and
the Rewards Offered.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 4, lSS7.-To
HIS ErceUencV Thomas Moonlight, Cor
ernor, Wyoming. Sir: [ beg leave to
state that at about the hour OF s o'clock
p. IN. the following persons escaped from
the county jail Of Laramie county, viz:
Dan Began, alias William Mccoy, con.
victed at the last term of our district court
OF the crime of murder in the first degree;
Charles III. Leroy, bound over to appear
before the next grand jury for the crime
of injuring, defacing and breaking a public
jail; James Jones, bound over to answer
before the next grand jury to the
crime of burglary, and William
G. Sterry, bound over to appear before
the next grand jury for the crime of
horse stealing.
The description of Dan Began, alias
William Mccoy, is as follows:
His age is about % years; his height
about s feet s or 9 inches; his hair
is dark and cut short; wears small dark
brown moustache; weighs about 100
pounds; wears a No. G boot and has
high instep; walks slightly stopped; has
thin lips, blush gray eyes and an old scar
on back of neck.
The description of Charles II. Leroy
is about as follows:
Age about &c years; height about 5 feet
8 inches, well built; complexion light;
full round face, small light moustache;
staggering walk.
The DESCRIPTION of James Jones is about
as follows:
Age about 35 years; height about FIVE
feet, ten inches; very smooth face; I'M
der jaw pr~otruding somewhat; mouth
slightly sunk in; dark complexion; cat
like walk, and, generally very stealthy in
all his movements and in his appearance.
The description of William G. Sterry
is about as follows: Age about "a years;
height, about five feet, six or seven
inches; dark complexion; hair dark,
short, but inclined to curl; sharp features;
Roman nose; slight in build.
| therefore haye the honor to request
that rewards be offered for the
above escaped prisoners as fol-
lows, to-wit: For Dan Began, alias
William Mccoy, $500; for Charles II.
Leroy, 5000; for James Jones, $500; and
for William g. Sterry 5000.
| will also state that a reward for the
capture, dead or alive, of Dan Began,
alias William Mccoy, S. X. Sharpless,
sheriff. has offered and now offers, in ad-
dition to all other rewards, a reward of
OF $500. Very respectfully, your obedl-
cnt servant, w. r. SToLL,
Prosecuting Attorney.
In accordance with the above request
and in conformity with the statutes in
cases made and provided. | do hereby
offer the following rewards:
$500 for the arrest of Dan Began, alias
VIM. Mccoy.
$500 for the arrest of James Jones.
5000 for the arrest of Charles II.
Leroy.
5000 for the arrest of William G..
Stcrry.
In addition to the above the sheriff
offers $500 for the arrest of Began,
alias Mccoy. THOMAS MOONLIGHT,
Governor.
Executive Office, Cheyenne, Wyo.,
Oct. I. 1887,
, 1887-10-22

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, 1887-10-22

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, 1887-10-22
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Courtesy of Hyo. Archi1
The Washington critic., 1887-09-17
AT THE THEATRES.

'HhNk' AT ALBAUGH' s,
Ar. William Redmuud and Mrs. Thomas
Barry are well known to the public as
among the best deliuestors Of romantic
character now bidding for popular favor.
In "Rene" they have theme which II made
the most Of cannot fail to make a strong
impression. The time Of the play is during
the Huguenot troubles in France, aud It's
plot Is based on the events surrounding the
Massacre Of SL Bartholomew. Strong sit
ustions arc numerous, and tho dialogue Is
said to be graceful and poetic. The play is
mounted In handsome style, the scenery
being OF the most expensive and elaborate
description. Amo Dg the special attractions
Introduced are the ballet of characteristic
Bohemian dsnces, the three Rinildos In
their grotesque spocialties, "The Revels of
the Zingsri" and the Ceciliau Quartette in
songs and chofuses.
THATCHER, PRIMROSE Il WEST AT THE
NATIONAL,
"Somethug newt is tine Mecca OF Amer.
lean intellect. The man who is constantly
producing new idea Is on the sure road to
fame and fortune. Thatcher, Primrose &
West hsys succeeded in evolving \ novel
phase OF negro minstrelAy every season, bu.
they now surpass all former efforts, and
present tbeir entlfo company excepting tbs
erd.men, In white face, and sttired In the
rich and picturesque drees OF the French
Directoire period New acts and new faces
are conspicuous In the entertainment, while
the old favoritss arc there In strong array.
The popularity which thl, company has en-
joyed since its first ,ppssrsnce Is ample
guarantee for q successful season.
WILBUR OPERA COMPANY AT THs pIJoU.
Next Monday promises TO open big
week at the Bijou, as the Wibur Opera
Company has never yet failed to meet with
msrked favor. An extensive aud pleasing
repertoire will bs presented, Including this
most popular operate gems. Ths company
has been reorgsnizod for the season and en-
lsrged, so ths, 1t now includes forty per.
sons, with the talented srtlsts Miss Susie
Kirvin and Mr. j. u, CoGly 40 Tia Isading
members. "lerry War will be given on
Monday and Tuesday, and there ia svery
prospect that su,uss' rolicking wAltEcs
will DO enjoyed by large audiences.
NOVELTY BILL AT KhgSAS's.
An ollo bill OF the STANDARD usually main.
tslned at this house will be the attraction a,
Kersn's next Noudsy. Msrlnsllrs Goa
SOpolitsn Congress Ia the title OF the organ.
iE.tlon which Ia intrustel with tho duties OF
| the week,
The Washington critic., 1887-09-17
South Washington.

The National Republican League OF
the District Of Columbia, No. /, was formed
in South Washington last night. The fol-
lowing officers were chosen: Presideat,
Robert A. Arnstead; vlce-presiicnt, Rich
ard johnson; secretary, W. IL. johnson;
corresponding secretary, s. u. Jones; treas.
urer, }. O. GuGnell; sergesnt-at-arms, @. IL.
CraEmy.
The pleasant weather of this morning
frightened up the excursion trade Of the
river considerably.
The W. W. Corcoran took very select
party TO NJ Vernon and Mar.hall Hall to-
day. With the Mary Washington II WAS
family day, and great many went to River
View.
The ArrowsmIth had larger party than
usual for Colonial Beach.
The police are still makiog It warm for
the owners OF unlicensed dogs.
The Washington critic., 1887-09-17
CITY NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Promotions have teen made In the
Whitney Naval Club as follows: Walker
Gilchrist, TO be lieutenant; A. A. Browne,
TO he ensign; Joseph Forrest, to be pay.
master, and Robert Gllchrst to be chptsln's
clerk.
Mr.. II. N. Clarke, the new secretary OF
the Y. NJ. C. A, was rendered a cordial re-
ception last evening at the rooms OF the
Association. Mr.. Clarke is said to be au
energetic worker and he came bere from
RicbmOpd Va